Tuesday, September 1st, 2026, 8:31 pm
Manchester Airport Data Breach
Filed under: The data can be used to defraud (e.g. impersonate) people who flew to and from Manchester Airport. Worse yet, it can potentially be leveraged for blackmail.
roups of tourists have gathered for the holiday around here, maybe anticipating the start of the football season. They’re typically quiet and polite people from Europe or east Asia. They choose to come to Manchester, not London, or sometimes both. They shop, stay overnight, and eventually leave to go back home.
Recently there was a data breach in Manchester Airport. Airports keep a lot of personal information about the people who fly and fliers cannot opt out because nobody can board a plane anonymously.
I certainly hope the computer systems at Manchester Airport were properly partitioned and did not use Windows. Every version of Windows has back doors and is a ransomware magnet.
